MAYS: Genealogy of the Mays Family. 1929Samuel Edward Mays Genealogy of the Mays Family and Related Families, to 1929. Also Maise, Mayse, , etc. From the Preface, the author's father, Samuel Elias Mays, assembled the foundation data for this genealogy. In 1606, the Virginia Company was organized in England in order to establish a colony in America. Robert Mayes, aged 23, came to Virginia in The Assurance In July, 1635. We also see Cornelius, aged twelve, who came in 1635. Edward Mays, in